Challenge coin money clip holder and/or wallet

[Eclipse]

My cadets get a free soda out of it!  Does not hurt to modify the tradition for cadets(soda)

Soda, coffee, whatever the beverage of choice or propriety is.

[Stonewall]

I find the whole challenging part... infantile.  And using it as a means of appropriating free alcohol has no place in our organization.

Really?

The tradition of a challenge is the most common way to ensure that members are carrying their unit's coin. Unfortunately, the rules of a challenge are not always formalized for a unit, and may vary between organizations. This may lead to some controversy when challenges are initiated between members of different organizations.

The challenge, which can be made at any time, begins with the challenger drawing his/her coin, and slapping or placing the coin on the table or bar. In noisy environs, continuously rapping the challenge coin on a surface may initiate the challenge. (Accidentally dropping a challenge coin is considered to be a deliberate challenge to all present.) Everyone being challenged must immediately produce the coin for their organization and anyone failing to do so must buy a round of drinks for the challenger and everyone else who has their challenge coin. However, should everyone challenged be able to produce their coin, the challenger must buy a round of drinks for the group.

While most holders of challenge coins usually carry them in their pockets or in some other readily accessible place on their persons, most versions of the rules permit a challenged person "a step and a reach" (particularly useful if one is challenged in the shower).

Variants of the rules include the following. If you are able to steal a challenge coin, everyone in the group must buy you a drink. During a challenge, everyone in the group must buy you a drink if you are the holder of the highest ranking coin. Some units provide strict time limits to respond to a challenge.

While the military tradition usually insinuates an alcoholic beverage, I'm quite certain all here can agree that no one is encouraging the consumption of alcohol by cadets; or mass amounts of alcohol by seniors in front of cadets.

The type of drink is not specified, so why throw in some assumption about anyone appropriating free alcohol or even encouraging it?

[JoeTomasone]

Here's my one coin, btw..  I guess just to see how impressive it is/how proud of it I should be...

[jimmydeanno]

Sharp looking coin - even nicer that they had the enamel put over the stamping and coloring.

[JoeTomasone]

Sharp looking coin - even nicer that they had the enamel put over the stamping and coloring.

Yeah, it's pretty heavy as well...  Not a cheapo.

[Stonewall]

Sharp looking coin - even nicer that they had the enamel put over the stamping and coloring.

If you ever have a coin made and you want the enamal coating, make sure you design your coin to not have a place for your name.  Most of the unit coins I've gotten have a smoothed out block so you can have your name engraved.  My buddy spent some serious cash on a great looking coin for his Long Ranger Surveillance (LRS) unit and opted for both the inscription block and enamel.  Once the enamel is on there you can't engrave anything.

Yeah, it's pretty heavy as well...  Not a cheapo.

They're all "cheapos" if you order enough.  I've seen the best of the best coins, very similar tothe SCARNG one you got there and cost about $2.50 a piece.  I think the coin I had made a few years ago was about $3.50 a piece and I only ordered 100.

[Eclipse]

My Turkish source does them in lots of 50 for $195 shipped with about a 30-day turn around if you haven't bought that design before.  2 weeks if he's already got the design.  For some reason the think enamel is required on the silver-tone ones, but only a very thin layer is required on the bronze ones.

Some of the US foundries charge twice that for just the setup.

Some of the "museum quality" mirror finish ones go for $5-8 and up of they have a custom edge or something, etc.

[Slim]

I'm to the point where I'm carrying 5 now, and always think that I should pare it down to one.  Problem is that I can't settle on which one, because they all have meaning to me.

I carry:

• CAP Ground Ops (one of Dan Pace's) that was bought and given to me by a friend.
• Alpena CRTC coin, given to me by the commander in 1995.  Lost a little meaning when they started selling them in the BX, but I just can't bear to be without it.
• MIWG commander's coin, given to me at the end of my encampment last year.
• Team USCG, given to me by ADM Thad Allen when he was commander of 9th District, for participating in OPSAIL2000.
• 7th SFG, unengraved, given to me by the son of my High School history teacher, who was in 7th Group.  It was my first coin, and I was told, under no circumstances, not to have my name engraved on it.

As encampment vice commander and commander, I bought seven coins at the BX when I first got there, and passed out one each day for the duration of the encampment, usually the Air Force core values coin.  Last year, they didn't have any, so I bought the CRTC coin instead.  They were given as rewards for doing a good job, standing out in an activity, or for pushing themself outside their limits and doing something they didn't think they could.

I wish I would have had the money to have my own coin made, but the budget just doesn't allow it.

[caprr275]

I cary 5 with me also

- Major Gen Courters coin
- MIWG Commanders's coin
- Alpena CRTC, given to me by Slim
- CAP SAR coin (NBB 06)
- NCAC (08-09 term)

I have 2 in my wallet at all times and the other 3 in a little bag i carry at CAP

[Stonewall]

I'm to the point where I'm carrying 5 now, and always think that I should pare it down to one.  Problem is that I can't settle on which one, because they all have meaning to me.

And

I cary 5 with me also.

Sorry guys, but don't you think that's a little...



5 coins?

[NIN]

Yeah, I only "surge" my coins when I'm going to be around some folks that will nail me (ie. at an USAC activity).

I got a really frickin' sweet coin this weekend. Need to snap a photo of both sides for you to behold. Its *awesome*.

[♠SARKID♠]

I have six, but only carry one when I'm at larger events like wing training missions.

Volk Field CRTC
CAP 60th Anniversary
332 Expeditionary Medical Group - Given to my by a medic my mom works with
Air Show Buzz coin
Chris Frost memorial coin
Wisconsin DNR Hunters Safety Instructor coin

[NIN]

For giggles, I laid out all my coins that I could put my fingers on quickly and snapped a shot.

Definitely missing is my 19th Avn Bn coin (in my wallet).

I was given pretty much every coin here.  The exceptions are some of the AUSA coins that are actually NWT Mint "business card" coins (esp the M109 SPARTY piece in the upper left), the Pentagon coin and the CAP coin in the baggie (bought those at the Andrews AFB BX), the CH-47 coin and the Desert Shield coin (nobody was giving those out, so I coordinated a group purchase for all the guys in my Guard unit who were deployed with me @ Fort Hood during Desert Shield)

[Slim]

I'm to the point where I'm carrying 5 now, and always think that I should pare it down to one.  Problem is that I can't settle on which one, because they all have meaning to me.

And

I cary 5 with me also.

Sorry guys, but don't you think that's a little...



5 coins?

Meh....

Maybe, but if I wouldn't have said anything, you'd have never known it.  It's not like I walk around slapping them on tables or anything.

[NIN]

I just got this coin this weekend from CPT Stanford, hot off the presses, darn near.  The photo does NOT do this somewhat oversized coin justice *at all*.